I was thinking of a solution to allow the player to see the cool down of activated skills in the background. The cool down notifications could come in the form of icons similar to boons or conditions except it would have the picture of the skill and a timer beside it or the tootip when you hover over it. I believe this would help to time your skills better for skills like portal or shadow step. This would also help necromancers see their cooldowns in death shroud
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Like current notifications the player would have the option to tweak this in the menu for their 6-0 skills respectively. To prevent screen clutter when reading other players’ boons/conditions or people seeing what skill you’re currently using (pvp/wvw) maybe the devs could make so only the player using the skill can see the icons. This is the short version, I’ll be happy to provide examples of how this could work for certain skills and which professions would benefit from this. Feel free to add ideas or critique!
TLDR: Skill cooldown notification in the form of boon/condi icons.